View full sizeA car carrying two women flipped after crashing with a New Jersey State Police patrol car on Route 80 early Sunday, Sgt. Adam Grossman said.Michael Mancuso/The Times of Trenton

PARSIPPANY — A car carrying two women flipped after a crash with a New Jersey State Police patrol vehicle, Sgt. Adam Grossman said.

The two woman complained of minor injuries and were transported to Morristown Medical Center, Grossman said.

The trooper also sustained minor injuries and was taken to the hospital, the sergeant said.

Trooper Wojciech Konopka of the Netcong barracks was observing traffic while driving west on Route 80 in Parsippany when he saw a Honda Civic driving toward him — on the same side of the highway, Grossman said.

The trooper then put on his emergency lights and crossed over into the eastbound lanes, trying to get the attention of the driver going in the wrong direction, according to Grossman.

Around mile-marker 42.6, the Honda stopped, turned around and righted course, driving west in the westbound lane, the sergeant said.

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Konopka, with his lights still on, began to pull into the left shoulder to tell dispatch about the wrong-way driver, Grossman said. But as the trooper entered the lane, his patrol vehicle was struck by a different Honda, Grossman said.

That Honda then overturned onto its roof, slid into the left shoulder and came to rest on the passenger side facing south, according to Grossman. Konopka's patrol car came to rest in the left-center lane facing southeast, Grossman said.

The Honda that crashed with the patrol car was driven by Norvinda Dasilva, 58, of Bushkill, Pa., and carried her passenger, Michelle Thompson, also of Bushkill, the sergeant said.

The investigation into the accident was still in its preliminary stage, said Grossman, who added that Konopka's actions helped alert the wrong-way driver to turn around.

Troopers weren't able to identify the car that was driving in the wrong direction, but the state Department of Transportation was contacted to help with the investigation, Grossman said.

As of 7:43 a.m., the crash had closed the left three lanes of Route 80 east, the state DOT said.